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Spells were probably developed during the ist or Shamanic religion areas. On the opposite, practitioners were harshly prosecuted in other places and ages, specially in areas whose State Religion was Christianity. Nowadays practitioners are protected under the Freedom Of Belief , a Fundamental Right regarded by most Democratic countries, although hoaxes based on the gullibility and need to believe of many people are usually punished as frauds. Typically, a spell is a symbolic representation of the purported effect performed under the invocation of a deity. It can even be an unwilling instantaneous action with no spectific shape, like some forms of Evil Eye . But in more developed Pagan beliefs, spells have the following general structure:
It is noticeable the similarity between this structure and the liturgy of more modern monotheistic religions, from which these practices are derived. A neat example of such a parallelism is the Catholic Mass . When the goal of the spell and the means used to achieved it are regarded as immoral, illegal or pernicious by a certain society, it is defined as ''black''. If a society accepts both the goal and the means as innocuous, it is defined as ''white''. Nowadays, a number of Neopagan religions like Wicca have recovered the usage of spells and vindicate it. Many people perform them privately for themselves, for others or for a price, usually following the instructions of occultist books or other sources, commonly seeking health, wealth and love although sometimes also for revenge or hate. Most experts agree that the spell was originally created by the human need to create causal associations many millennia prior to the development of the Scientific Method . The relationship between seed and plant or sex and baby were fully mysterious wonders for thousands of years. In absence of the scientific method, a direct relationship ''minor act -> major result'' of an apparent magic nature is established and progressively enshrouded behind sophisticated liturgies until it loses the original meaning and, by association, new Superstitious relationships develop new, more obscure spells until a religion is born. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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